Crescent City, California

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  Highway 101 Speedrun, Trinidad to Crescent City, California

  Take a journey through the Redwoods and the rain, along US Highway 101, between Trinidad and Crescent City, CA. This has been sped up eight times, so the hour long drive takes only about eight minutes. The road winds through the huge trees of the scenic Redwoods State and National Parks of Northern California.

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  February 27, 2010 Crescent City, California tsunami from M8.8 Chile earthquake

  Video of first 3 hours of tsunami inundation at small boat basin entrance of Crescent City harbor. Tsunami produced by M8.8 offshore Chile earthquake. The processed video is sped up by about 20X so that 3 hours is reproduced to be about 8.5 minutes in length. Note, the tsunami is not a wall of water but a series of long period waves, seen here as strong shifting currents in and out of the small boat basin. The surging and waning portions of the tsunami are about 15 minutes apart. This small boat basin typically has little or no current across the entrance. The anticipated maximum crest to trough amplitude of the tsunami was estimated by the West Coast Tsunami Warning Center to be about 0.6 m (2 ft). The change in sea level height is evident by the change in water height on the end of the rocky break-water directly across the channel. Several fishing and pleasure vessels moved out of the basin in advance of the tsunami. A few of them return during the course of the video and can be seen negotiating the channel in the swift currents of the tsunami.

More on Crescent City, California

Name:

Crescent City, California

Type:

City

Total Area (sq. mi):

2.1

Total Area (km):

5.3

Land Area (sq mi):

1.8

Land Area (km):

4.6

Water Area (sq mi):

0.3

Water Area (km):

0.7

Elevation (ft):

43

Elevation (m):

13

Time Zone:

Pacific (PST)

Website:

www.crescentcity.org

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